Sorry, I really wish I had found this story back on MLK day for a bit of appropriateness--but, better late than never. Head over to Rahul Mahajan's EmpireNotes.Org and read this very insightful post on how Martin Luther King Jr. has been not only coopted by the conservative movement, but in the process marginalized, as well.
Rahul's point seems to be that when you make a great man into a deity, he stops being what the rest of us can be and worse, stops influencing us because we can no longer to aspire to be as great as he was since he is a virtual saint. Check out the whole post for yourself, however, as he makes a few other interesting points as well.
I give kudo's to Rahul for teaching me a new word in that post--"hagiography."
Look it up if you don't know what it is. (Here's a link to Dictionary.com :) )
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